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I haven't mentioned this here before, but if you know me in real life, chances are that you know that I have a huge professional-type fangirl crush on reporter Mac McClelland. This sort of started when I read her harrowing account of Haiti's reconstruction crisis and metastasized after reading her book on the on-going civil war in Burma, For Us, Surrender is Out of the Question. And I've kind of been a lost cause ever since.
It's gotten to the point where friends send me links as if I haven't already found them, and I've started indoctrinating them. (Mwah hah hah)
In any case, I was kind of wonder where the hell MoJo sent her this time, since updates got sporadic. The answer was apparently working for minimum wage for an investigative report on warehouse conditions in the US for online shipping retailers: I Was a Warehouse Wage Slave.
Holy shit, but this is soul-crushing and rage-inducing. This is horrifying. And you have no idea the level of guilt that crept into my being when I got the email from Amazon regarding something I pre-ordered months ago shipping a few hours after reading this article yesterday. This is not okay. It is not okay to treat people like this, and if I have to pay more for paying for the convenience of online shopping so people are not treated as disposable, I will. Because I'm not sure boycotting would work, even though it's my first instinct, because it's likely to backfire and just hurt the workers more. Because the response corporations will have to less demand isn't "make conditions better" but "have less workers", which means people can't put food on the table.
No, this is the very reason labor unions are supposed to exist. And yeah, I'm a union kid. I'm biased and I'll own that. But read McClelland's article and tell me that is acceptable.
It's gotten to the point where friends send me links as if I haven't already found them, and I've started indoctrinating them. (Mwah hah hah)
In any case, I was kind of wonder where the hell MoJo sent her this time, since updates got sporadic. The answer was apparently working for minimum wage for an investigative report on warehouse conditions in the US for online shipping retailers: I Was a Warehouse Wage Slave.
Holy shit, but this is soul-crushing and rage-inducing. This is horrifying. And you have no idea the level of guilt that crept into my being when I got the email from Amazon regarding something I pre-ordered months ago shipping a few hours after reading this article yesterday. This is not okay. It is not okay to treat people like this, and if I have to pay more for paying for the convenience of online shopping so people are not treated as disposable, I will. Because I'm not sure boycotting would work, even though it's my first instinct, because it's likely to backfire and just hurt the workers more. Because the response corporations will have to less demand isn't "make conditions better" but "have less workers", which means people can't put food on the table.
No, this is the very reason labor unions are supposed to exist. And yeah, I'm a union kid. I'm biased and I'll own that. But read McClelland's article and tell me that is acceptable.
